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Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Discord isn’t exactly known for generous file-sharing limits, still, the messaging app offered a 25MB limit to free users. The company has now updated its support page to reflect the upload limit for free users has been lowered to 10MB.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Does anyone know of a Discord alternative?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (13 children)

My vote is for Matrix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of Matrix but I've heard of Revolt.

Matrix any good?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I guess locking basic features behind a paywall didn't work for them after all, eh?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

Discord continues down it's path to total enshittification, which is exactly what I told everyone would happen when this fucking dogshit app got pushed on me around 2018 or so.

It's a private company with a profit motive. Fucking shocker that it enshittifies. /s

Fucking dipshit gamers not knowing any better.

I was promoting Matrix/Riot.IM (now Element) and nobody gave a shit because it was too hard to use even though it mostly has the same interface as Discord. (Which, by the way, fuck this interface.)

[+] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I'm completely out of the loop, so I might as well ask you: where is discord so established? Never used it in my life. I used IRC, ICQ and MSN in their time. Now for work Slack, teams and zoom. Signal and Telegram privately. Email for everything.

What am I missing? What does discord provide?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

A really ugly and confusing UI.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ICQ

You sure about that part? I thought they shut down. I guess they might have some user-based servers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

if you read the whole sentence it might make more sense...

i used [...] in their time.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Discord is used a lot for gaming groups, modding, software development, and has largely replaced forums for lots of niche communities

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago

Which is unfortunate. Hiding projects, code and support behind discord is just wrong.

There are Linux and open source communities on discord. I mean, just think about that for a second. These people have chosen to put their stuff on a platform that has refused to acknowledge the existence of their OS / development platform. Every other post on Reddit in the Linux community before I left was about some half assed discord workaround.

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[+] [email protected] -21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is there a competitor that can do that?

I say this with all due respect: Who gives a shit? If you were foolish enough to dump your entire community into Discord alone and don't have an off-ramp, that's your own fucking problem.

EDIT: Also, Matrix already has a bridge for Discord and has for a while:

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/discord/

[+] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[+] [email protected] -26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t it be easy to switch, like going from Chrome to Firefox?

Say you have no idea how any of this works without saying you have no idea how any of this works.

That’s how we get out of Discord hell.

Why is it our job to fix the problems of a private, profit-focused company?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (6 children)

What an overreaction. Also FYI the free file limit was 8MB two years ago before they raised the limit to 25MB, so if anything it's gotten better.